Even the Update Manager tool works well, identifying 23 applications on our test computer that could be updated. It lists how many seconds each item is adding to your load time and details of what the program or task does.

The Startup Manager of Glary Utilities is excellent, showing you a breakdown of all the startup programs, scheduled tasks, plugins, application services, and Windows services that might be slowing down the boot time of your computer. The files cleaner found over a gigabyte of temporary files to remove, which is on par with the rest of our testing. It does have basic skinning support, so you can choose the colors and background of the application, but it always looks professional. Many system maintenance and optimization tools have pointless widgets to make it appear as if they’re doing something more impressive than they are.

Glary Utilities has a refreshingly simple interface. Advanced tools are listed in their own tab (Image credit: Glary Utilities) Interface and in use

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